NEDAP News | Vol. 2 Issue 12 | December 2007

 

Welcome to the December 2007 edition of NEDAP News

 

 

NEDAP Presents Awards at Holiday Party

NEDAP staff and board members with awardees

NEDAP celebrated the winter holidays with colleagues, friends, and family at the NEDAP office.  In keeping with tradition, NEDAP presented awards to three outstanding individuals and community groups near and dear to our hearts:

  • Oda Friedheim, Queens Legal Aid

Defender of the Year Award

  • University Housing Neighborhood Program

Most Valuable Partner (MVP) Award

  • NY Women's Foundation

Jumpstart Award

Congratulations to the awardees, and thanks to all who joined us in the celebration. Muchas gracias a Esperanza del Barrio for the delicious Mexican food.  Happy New Year everyone!

 

Changes at NEDAP

NEDAP's board and staff bid fond farewell to Mark Winston Griffith, NEDAP's co-director since 2005. Mark leaves NEDAP to join the Drum Major Institute as a Senior Fellow.  We will miss Mark and wish him all the best!


This month, NEDAP welcomed Josh Zinner as the new NEDAP co-director.  Josh comes to NEDAP with a wealth of experience and expertise, as long-time director of South Brooklyn Legal Services' Foreclosure Prevention Project and a leader in the financial justice field. 


We are pleased to announce that Pablo DeFillipi, a stalwart leader in the community development credit union movement, recently joined NEDAP's advisory board.

 

Thank You Interns and Volunteers!

NEDAP worked with several stellar interns and volunteers in recent months, whom we would like to thank for their valuable contributions: 

  • Volunteer attorneys Norm Alt and Andrea Donkor, and Daysun Chang, a UPenn law student, helped staff NEDAP's busy Consumer Law Hotline and assisted hundreds of low income New Yorkers facing an array of consumer credit and debt collection issues.
  • Law students Sarah Fick and Katherine Evans from the NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic worked with NEDAP and the NYC Immigrant Financial Justice Network, helping to organize actions and prepare fact sheets around newly proposed Department of Homeland Security rules that would affect workers whose employers receive Social Security "no-match" letters. 

  • Joe Taranto, an undergraduate in NYU's Gallatin School, worked with NEDAP to assist members of the Immigrant Financial Justice Network with research, community outreach and organizing.  Buen viaje a Argentina, Joe!

 

Community Training and Advocacy Highlights

In December, NEDAP:

  • Spoke at a City Hall press conference announcing the new Center for NYC Neighborhoods, a coordinated, comprehensive, city-wide foreclosure prevention initiative.  NEDAP has played a major role in helping to design the Center, which will be launched in 2008 and significantly expands foreclosure prevention outreach and education, counseling, and legal services resources in NYC.

  • Conducted a workshop on immigrant banking rights for members of Dwa Fanm, a human rights organization committed to empowering Haitian immigrant women. 

  • Issued a statement on Bush-Paulson subprime plan. Click here to view statement.

  • Spoke at an anti-foreclosure rally organized by Councilmember James Sanders, Jr. and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, held at St. Luke's Cathedral in Laurelton, Queens.

  • Presented at a foreclosure prevention workshop sponsored by Queens Assemblymember Michele Titus in South Ozone Park.

  • Spoke on a panel on community responses to the foreclosure crisis, at a day-long forum hosted by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
  • Appeared in various media outlets, including:

 

NEDAP Thanks 2007 Donors!

NEDAP thanks the following individuals for their generous donations in 2007:
 

Catherine Barnett Emily Botein Hilary Botein Brian Bromberg

Daniel Delehanty Sarah Dranoff Hillary Exter Carol & David Furer

Sarah & Jeff Gerecke Alicia Glen Gail Gordon Kathryn Goyer

John Gray Sara Kay Chris Keeley Catherine Lifeso

Gregory & Sandra Lobo-Jost Ed Ludwig Toby Ludwig
Melanie M. McMenamin & Robert M. Palumbos Markita S. Morris-Louis
Maria Navarro Our friends at Neighbors Helping Neighbors Laura Nelsen

Elizabeth Serkin Jonathan Springer Jeffrey & Lucinda Wilner

anonymous donor

NEDAP welcomes your tax-deductible contribution, which may be made online or by mail.

 

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